Read only file access

[patrick machielse]

Op 30 mrt. 2012, om 14:05 heeft Lukáš Lalinský het volgende geschreven:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:51 PM, patrick machielse <patrick at hieper.nl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> We use TagLib in a Mac OS application. Recently our App Store submission was refused because of 'modifying a user file'. Yes.
>> 
>> Details are fuzzy, but we now believe that the rejection may be a result of TagLib opening audio files in tfile.cpp like this:
>> 
>> file = fopen(name, "rb+");
>> 
>> Is there a higher level way to specify in TagLib that that we only want to open the file in readonly mode?
>> 
>> We noticed this pull-requests on git-hub but there seems to be no resolution:
>> 
>> https://github.com/taglib/taglib/pull/3
>> 
>> I think it would be able to use 'brute force' and copy the files to a temp directory before reading the file tag. I think Apple still allows that (knock on wood), but it is so in-elegant...
> 
> The relevant changes were implemented here:
> 
> https://github.com/taglib/taglib/commit/a04da3f1592a8833fe2c55b6aa3177bbec0202b5
> 
> The API has changed in the development version, that's why the pull
> request was not merged.

Aha, thanks.

It seems this code is not part of the regular releases. Is it scheduled to become part of a future release?

Should I just pull the most recent code from the git-hub master branch to get read-only functionality? What would be the disadvantages of doing that -- I assume there is a reason for leaving the file stream (and other new files) out of the 1.x releases so far?

patrick
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